Wrecked on Spider Island; Or, How Ned Rogers Found the Treasure

Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
By JAMES OTIS,
Author of “The Castaways,” “Runaway Brig,” “Search for the Silver City,” “With Lafayette at Yorktown,” “Treasure Finders,” etc., etc.
NEW YORK:
A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER.
Copyright, 1896, by A. L. Burt.
WRECKED ON SPIDER ISLAND.
Ned Rogers had but few acquaintances in the city of Portland, Maine; but those few were positive the boy had run away from home.
It was quite natural such should be the general idea among those who saw him trying from day to day to earn the small amount of money necessary to provide him with food.
As a matter of course it was essential he should also have clothes and a bed at night; but Ned had found it such hard work to get sufficient to satisfy his hunger that it would have seemed a willful waste of money to expend it on anything save provisions.
He very often found shelter in the store-houses on the wharves where he sought employment. Sometimes the crew of a fishing vessel would allow him to remain on board during the night, and more than once did he walk around the streets because of his inability to go elsewhere.